For 25 years, the Festival of Trees has been Red Deer's premier Christmas community fundraiser.  Funds raised at this event directly benefit your Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre through the Red Deer Regional Hospital Foundation.  

2018 Festival of Trees funding will be used to support the purchase of the Pyxis automated medication dispensing systems for placement in emergency, ICU/CCU, NICU, operating room, recovery room, unit 22 (cardiology), and select outpatient areas.  In the hospital, over 1,000 new medication orders are written by prescribers and processed every day.  13,000 units of medication are dispensed on the care areas every 24 hours.  Currently all processes are paper based and manual.  The Pyxis automated system has numerous electronic features for safety and efficiency to accurately dispense patient medications, reducing the likelihood of human error.